Steven Soderbergh polar consumer entertainment trends and experimentation to find near-perfect half of contagion, which is one of the most exciting and terrifying films of the year and careful use, beautiful of any new digital cinema technology. Watching the film on an IMAX screen huge inflated, it is not absolutely necessary, but allows close-ups of Soderbergh RED Epic cameras to perform more film of the bug, affecting psychological claustrophobia. A disaster thriller also stars talented enough to get home, spread is satisfactory and frightening and very exciting to see.
The contagion began the second day of a disaster that will soon disappear an important part of the population of the Earth, a terribly plausible disaster - a virus, born of a strange combination of DNA of bats and pork, which is a human host and spread from there. The woman identified as Patient Zero (Gwyneth Paltrow) moves from Hong Kong, stopped in Chicago to connect with a former boyfriend, and returns home to her husband (Matt Damon) Mitch before his death, sudden and violent. Soon his son was also killed, and Mitch immune mysteriously left the team with his daughter (Anna Jacoby-Heron) Jory to survive in a world that is rapidly crumbling.
Elsewhere, Marion Cotillard plays a scientist World Health Organization are trying to determine how the virus started in Hong Kong, while the CDC in Atlanta, Laurence Fishburne is the public face of the organization, Kate Winslet is sent to Minneapolis for find out how the virus spread there, and Jennifer Ehle and Demetri Martin are researchers in the dirt trying to copy this stuff and find a cure. Disaster Movie to complete the necessary all-star cast, we have Jude Law as a blogger unscrupulous rich off of people newly paranoid, Elliott Gould as a physician working on a cure, and John Hawkes and Bryan Cranston as several characters revolve around the CDC.
Scott Z. Burns script moves quickly through all these stories and more, and he and Steven Soderbergh is not afraid to lose some when something interests them most - Cotillard character suffers a bit of a giant leap in the time and character of Hawkes, seems more a symbol than a real person. But the huge range allows more Soderbergh working on what he does best, so persistent close-ups, quick cuts of nature destroyed, or even the darkest moments of humor to show the economic destruction virus, while giving the public an icky kind of excitement. The infection does not wink at the audience, and his realistic assumption could easily do a PSA for the vaccination against seasonal influenza, but Soderbergh knows we are all entertained by showing them our potential extinction. How Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay would use this knowledge to bombard you with drama, Soderbergh uses it to slowly, inexorably come into your skin.
Which is calculated, and sometimes the camera work helps clinical Soderbergh to avoid sentimentality, and in some ways very useful - the death of one of the great character deals with the brutal efficiency and speed - but the ever reliable Matt Damon manages to sneak in any way. Damon can make the best claim to be the main character, and he and Soderbergh's work together to build Mitch as a surrogate audience, which allows him to moments of great humanity - to protect her daughter almost to the point of absurdity - but be careful, avoiding the syrup, calm and directed Damon is a scene where he discovers his wife is dead, and Soderbergh cuts the time Mitch gets to know his stepson went too. Mitch fit well into the traditional disaster movie, but both Soderbergh and Damon makes both him and yourself a lot of interesting infectious and irritating that the genre usually allows. You see, so keep an eye on everything else after the bathroom sink - it is to wash your hands thoroughly than ever.
